The Crown Quotes (Season 5)

Out of the acorn of a simple kindness, an oak tree of happiness will grow.

You can judge the health of a family by the state of the marriages within it.

The question people have to ask themselves is what do they want in their leaders? Do they want someone who errs, but who learns from their mistakes, who grows, who recognizes the need for change, who has a vision? Or someone who is content to continue making the same mistakes and to keep things as they are?

You’re not a novice anymore. You’re long past the point of thinking of us as a family. That’s the mistake people make in the beginning, but you understand, I think, it’s a system. And we’re all in this system. You, me, the Boss. The cousins, the uncles, the aunts. The lepers. For better or for worse. We’re all stuck in it. And we can’t just air our grievances and throw bombs in the air as in a normal family, or we end up damaging something much bigger and something much more important. The system.[to Diana]

When a vessel is in rough seas, it’s sometimes necessary to alter her course.

What did the window cleaner see in the Kremlin? Nothing. That’s the trouble with iron curtains.

We got our modern monarchy all right. Just not in the way we hoped.

True statesmanship is not confined to a time in public office.

There are some things one cannot express in words, and dance is a language of its own.

None of us is exclusively one thing. Human beings are too interesting for that.

No one prepares you for what it’s like to be separated. It’s a strange sort of no-man’s-land. Or no-woman’s-land. Neither married nor single. Neither royal nor normal. Like a harpy. One of those mythological creatures. Half woman, half bird. And one minute, you’re flying high, the center of attention. And the next thing, you’re down to earth with a bump. Not even a bump. A crash. No one to talk to. And there’s no one for company.

No man whose marriage has failed will ever have everything he wants.